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“You’ll get used to it,” Ben said gently.
There was nothing about this that Eudora could see herself getting used to. She knew that Diego’s dead brother was trying to help her, but how was she supposed to be taking this? She was dead. Eudora was dead.
“I know it sucks,” Klaus offered, “But hey. You’ve got options, here. It’s kind of complicated, but I can try to explain.”
Eudora nodded, “Okay.”
“You can move on to whatever afterlife you believe in if you want,” Klaus explained, “Basically just by believing it. Or if you don’t want to, you can stick around and haunt the living. You can’t affect the physical world, but you can go around stalking your loved ones until they join you, like some people.”
Ben’s swat went right through his brother’s arm, “You know you’d be lost without me.”
Klaus shrugged, “Fair.”
“I’m his impulse control,” Ben explained, “All of it. If I wasn’t around to look out for this loser, he’d have joined us a long time ago.”
“I’m not totally helpless!”
“Are to!”
“Am not!”
As the brothers bickered, Eudora tried not to throw up. Could ghosts even throw up? She was having a panic attack, here, and in life she hadn’t even had anxiety.
“I can’t do this right now,” she managed to gasp out before running, straight through the wall outside. The outside air didn’t make a difference.
“Eudora! Hey, Eudora, wait!”
Ben was following her, which didn’t make sense. Eudora hadn’t known him when he was alive. She hadn’t even met Diego yet when he died. Why would he want to help her?
“Eudora!”
Eudora finally managed to stop running, trying to calm down as she found herself in the middle of an empty street.
Ben wasn’t panting from chasing her. Ghosts didn’t need to breathe.
“Hey, I know how scary this can be,” he said gently, “Believe me. I know. I went through this, too. It’s disorienting at first. But you’re not alone, here. You’ve got me and Klaus to help you through this. If you want, I can convince my doofus brother to give Diego a message for you. Not sure if he’ll listen, since he’s still grieving, but...”
If possible, that made Eudora feel even worse. Her friends. Her family. Everyone thought she was dead, because she was. She’d left her family behind.
And Diego probably thought this was his fault. He probably blamed himself for not getting to her fast enough.
“It gets better,” Ben pressed, “Eventually, you get used to watching from the outside. You stop seeing it as just a curse.”
“What else could it be?” Eudora snapped.
“You get a chance to watch over the people you love,” Ben said, “You can’t talk to them, but you get to see all their accomplishments. You can see them learn. Watch them grow. And eventually... maybe you get the opportunity to let them know that you never really left them.”
Eudora took a deep breath, or what passed for one as a ghost.
“I’m going to stay and watch over the people I love.”
“Okay,” Ben agreed, “If that’s what you want.”
“I’m going to wait for a chance to tell them how much I love them.”
“Okay. I’ll be right here with you. Need a hug?”
Eudora chuckled, “I wouldn’t say no.”
To be honest, that hug from her boyfriend-ish’s super nice dead brother made everything feel a bit better.